• Tunable cell-surface mimetics as engineered cell substrates 

  Shilts, Kent; Naumann, Christoph A. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Most recent breakthroughs in understanding cell adhesion, cell migration, and cellular mechanosensitivity have been made possible by the development of engineered cell substrates of well-defined surface properties. ...
• Polymerization shrinkage stresses in different restorative techniques for non-carious cervical lesions 

  de Oliveira Correia, Ayla Macyelle; Tribst, João Paulo Mendes; de Souza Matos, Felipe; Platt, Jeffrey A.; Caneppele, Taciana Marco Ferraz; Borges, Alexandre Luiz Souto (Elsevier, 2018-09)

  Objective This study evaluated the effect of different restorative techniques for non-carious cervical lesions (NCCL) on polymerization shrinkage stress of resins using three-dimensional (3D) finite element analysis ...
• Disturbances of postural sway components in cannabis users 

  Bolbecker, Amanda R.; Apthorp, Deborah; Martin, Ashley Schanakenberg; Tahayori, Behdad; Moravec, Leah; Gomez, Karen L.; O'Donnell, Brian F.; Newman, Sharlene D.; Hetrick, William P. (Elsevier, 2018-09)

  Introduction A prominent effect of acute cannabis use is impaired motor coordination and driving performance. However, few studies have evaluated balance in chronic cannabis users, even though density of the CB1 receptor, ...
• Two decades of research in discovery of anticancer drugs targeting STAT3, how close are we? 

  Beebe, Jenny; Liu, Jing-Yuan; Zhang, Jian-Ting (Elsevier, 2018)

  Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) controls many biological processes including differentiation, survival, proliferation, and angiogenesis. In normal healthy cells, STAT3 is tightly regulated to ...
• Managing the Unmanageable: A Two-Staged Palliative Resection to Control Life-Threatening Duodenal Bleeding Due to Recurrent Paraganglioma 

  Smucker, Levi Y.; Hardy, Ashley N.; O’Neil, Peter J.; Schwarz, Roderich E. (International Scientific Information, 2018-04-02)

  BACKGROUND This report presents therapeutic decision-making and management of refractory, life-threatening duodenal bleeding in a young man with recurrent metastatic retroperitoneal paraganglioma. CASE REPORT The patient ...
• Using Bibliometric Big Data to Analyze Faculty Research Productivity in Health Policy and Management 

  Harle, Christopher A.; Vest, Joshua R.; Menachemi, Nir (2016-03)

  Bibliometric big data and social media tools provide new opportunities to aggregate and analyze researchers' scholarly impact. The purpose of the current paper is to describe the process and results we obtained after ...
• Recommendations for applying a multi-dimensional model of impulsive personality to diagnosis and treatment 

  Um, Miji; Hershberger, Alexandra R.; Whitt, Zachary T.; Cyders, Melissa A. (BioMed Central, 2018-04-02)

  The UPPS-P Model of Impulsive Personality, a prominent model of impulsive personality derived from the Five Factor Model of Personality, is a multi-dimensional model of impulsive personality that consists of negative ...
• Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) promotes the resolution of Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infection in congenic C57BL/6N mice 

  Carrasco, Sebastian E.; Hu, Sishun; Imai, Denise M.; Kumar, Ramesh; Sandusky, George E.; Yang, X. Frank; Derbigny, Wilbert A. (Public Library of Science, 2018-04-06)

  Chlamydia trachomatis urogenital serovars primarily replicate in epithelial cells lining the reproductive tract. Epithelial cells recognize Chlamydia through cell surface and cytosolic receptors, and/or endosomal innate ...
• Estrogen modulates mesenchyme-epidermis interactions in the adult nipple 

  Wu, Hsing-Jung; Oh, Ji Won; Spandau, Dan F.; Tholpady, Sunil; Diaz, Jesus, III; Schroeder, Laura J.; Offutt, Carlos D.; Glick, Adam B.; Plikus, Maksim V.; Koyama, Sachiko; Foley, John (Company of Biologists, 2017-04-15)

  Maintenance of specialized epidermis requires signals from the underlying mesenchyme; however, the specific pathways involved remain to be identified. By recombining cells from the ventral skin of the K14-PTHrP transgenic ...
• Titer estimation for quality control (TEQC) method: A practical approach for optimal production of protein complexes using the baculovirus expression vector system 

  Imasaki, Tsuyoshi; Wenzel, Sabine; Yamada, Kentaro; Bryant, Megan L.; Takagi, Yuichiro (Public Library of Science, 2018-04-03)

  The baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) is becoming the method of choice for expression of many eukaryotic proteins and protein complexes for biochemical, structural and pharmaceutical studies. Significant technological ...
• Feature Distilled Tracking 

  Zhu, Guibo; Wang, Jinqiao; Wang, Peisong; Wu, Yi; Lu, Hanqing (IEEE, 2017-12)

  Feature extraction and representation is one of the most important components for fast, accurate, and robust visual tracking. Very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) provide effective tools for feature extraction ...
• Settlement in Transition: a Transformation of a Village into a Small Town in Western Sudan 

  Ibrahim, Mohamed Babiker; Zulu, Leo C.; Bein, Frederick L. (Springer, 2018-03)

  UN-Habitat projects Sub-Saharan Africa’s global share of the urban population to increase from 11.3% in 2010 to 20.2% by 2050. Yet little is documented about the underlying urbanization processes, particularly of emergence ...
• Regularized and Retrofitted models for Learning Sentence Representation with Context 

  Saha, Tanay Kumar; Joty, Shafiq; Hassan, Naeemul; Al Hasan, Mohammad (ACM, 2017-11)

  Vector representation of sentences is important for many text processing tasks that involve classifying, clustering, or ranking sentences. For solving these tasks, bag-of-word based representation has been used for a long ...
• Collaborating With Writing Centers on Interdisciplinary Peer Tutor Training to Improve Writing Support for Engineering Students 

  Weissbach, Robert S.; Pflueger, Ruth C. (IEEE, 2018-01)

  Introduction: Faculty members have little time and usually lack expertise to provide writing feedback on lab reports. Sending students to a writing center, an existing resource on virtually all college campuses, could fill ...
• Nursing Home Chain Affiliation and Its Impact on Specialty Service Designation for Alzheimer Disease 

  Blackburn, Justin; Zheng, Qing; Grabowski, David C.; Hirth, Richard; Intrator, Orna; Stevenson, David G.; Banaszak-Holl, Jane (INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2018)

  Specialty care units (SCUs) in nursing homes (NHs) grew in popularity during the 1990s to attract residents while national policies and treatment paradigms changed. Alzheimer disease has consistently been the dominant form ...
• Acute Dyspnea and Decompensated Heart Failure 

  Pang, Peter S.; Collins, Sean P.; Gheorghiade, Mihai; Butler, Javed (Elsevier, 2018-02)

  The majority of patients hospitalized with acute heart failure (AHF) initially present to the emergency department (ED). Correct diagnosis followed by prompt treatment ensures optimal outcomes. Paradoxically, identification ...
• Not only teachers: What do health administration faculty members do? 

  Harle, Christopher A.; Mullen, Cody; Vest, Joshua R.; Menachemi, Nir (2016)

  Researchers have long been interested in how university faculty allocate their time between professional tasks. This study uses multiple years of Health Administration (HA) faculty survey data to examine how work activity ...
• Remodeling of the malaria parasite and host human red cell by vesicle amplification that induces artemisinin resistance 

  Bhattacharjee, Souvik; Coppens, Isabelle; Mbengue, Alassane; Suresh, Niraja; Ghorbal, Mehdi; Slouka, Zdenek; Safeukui, Innocent; Tang, Hsin-Yao; Speicher, David W.; Stahelin, Robert V.; Mohandas, Narla; Haldar, Kasturi (American Society of Hematology, 2018-03-15)

  Artemisinin resistance threatens worldwide malaria control and elimination. Elevation of phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PI3P) can induce resistance in blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum The parasite unfolded protein ...
• Dimethyl fumarate attenuates reactive microglia and long-term memory deficits following systemic immune challenge 

  Paraiso, Hallel C.; Kuo, Ping-Chang; Curfman, Eric T.; Moon, Haley J.; Sweazey, Robert D.; Yen, Jui-Hung; Chang, Fen-Lei; Yu, I-Chen (BioMed Central, 2018-03-29)

  BACKGROUND: Systemic inflammation is associated with increased cognitive decline and risk for Alzheimer's disease. Microglia (MG) activated during systemic inflammation can cause exaggerated neuroinflammatory responses ...
• BMPR2 mutations and endothelial dysfunction in pulmonary arterial hypertension (2017 Grover Conference Series) 

  Frump, Andrea; Prewitt, Allison; de Caestecker, Mark P. (Sage Journals, 2018-04)

  Despite the discovery more than 15 years ago that patients with hereditary pulmonary arterial hypertension (HPAH) inherit BMP type 2 receptor ( BMPR2) mutations, it is still unclear how these mutations cause disease. In ...

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